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NOTE. -- The following is an extract from a report to the [???] Commission, by its actuary, Mr. E.B. [???], which is now in press:

"Since one hundred and four (104.4) out of every thousand men, (officers and privates together,) in the [???], is the constant proportion of sick, it follows [???], to secure in the field a constant force of five hundred thousand (500,000) effective (or healthy and able) men, the nation must constantly maintain, in hospitals or elsewhere, an additional force of fifty eight thousand (58,000) sick men, making the entire force maintained, both sick and effective, in consist of five hundred and fifty-eight thousand (558,000) men; four per cent., or 22,000 of this [???] force would be commissioned officers, and 96 per cent., or 536,000 [???] men. And since to supply continuous losses in the ranks of the enlisted men, other than losses from explanation of service, requires recruits at the annual [???] of 229 per 1,000 enlisted men, [???], that to keep the ranks of these 536,000 enlisted men constantly [???], with require anually 123,000 [???]; 29,000 of these [???] being demanded to supply the annual [???] occasioned by death; 54,000, the loss arising from discharged from service, [???] from disability; 27,000 for excess of [???] over return of deserties duty; 7,000 missing in action, not subsequently otherwise accounted for, and 6,000 the less from other causes.

"To repeat -- assuming the returns of the period from the 1st of June, 1861, to the 1st of March, 1862, as the basis of calculation, it follows, that to secure in the held a constant force of 500,000 effective men, the nation must not only maintain 58,000 sick men, but it must also recruit the ranks of the enlisted portion of these forces with new material, at the rate of 123,000 per annual, so long as the war shall last; a rate some what exceeding 10,000 recruits per month. Of these 123,000 annual recruits, 83,000 are to supply losses by death and discharges from service, (exclusive of discharges for expiration of its term); 34,000 for [???] and missing in action (not returned or otherwise accounted for;) and 6,000 to supply other losses specified and unspecified.

"The five hundred thousand (500,000) effective men are equivalent in number to the number of men in 573 regiments of the average numerical strength (that is [???] men each); and the 58,000 sick equivalent to 67 regiments of average numerical strenght; the entire force of 558,000 men to be maintained being equivalent to 640 regiments of average strength."

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